The Spanish bank Bankia and the Inter-American Investment Corporation in 2001 established CIFI, the Corporacion Interamericana Para El Financiamiento de Infraestructura. CIFI is a financial institution, based in Panama, that arranges and provides debt financing to privately owned infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The financial institution is mainly active in the energy, oil and gas, transportation, telecommunications, water, environmental, social infrastructure and tourism industry segments. CIFI adopted the Equator Principles in 2007, and is profiled as part of BankTrack's Tracking the Equator Principles campaign.

Voluntary initiatives

• Equator Principles
• IFC Performance Standard 1: Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts